On November 13, 2002 03:27 pm, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
It's to avoid buffer overflows. With escapes, 80 chars can potentially grow to 400 chars.
Yes, I thought it would be related to buffer sizes, but it does not look like the right fix. We should check, and not exceed, the size of the buffer, not limit the input to the worse case safe minimum. I'll look at an alternative fix.